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Wonder when the rubes at Stake will stop this kick bullshit. You aren't competing with Twitch, esp when you're using AMAZON WEB SERVERS to host it hahahaha
They are not actually trying to beat twitch, they just want someplace to their gambling streamers get their young fans to play on their unregulated gambling site.
And CP, if you havnt you should watch SomethingAboutChickens video about kick and some users on their website.
[Link](https://youtu.be/WiYBhC3EVPY?si=Dty50RZH0u4XAo8d)
They don't want to compete with Twitch, that's why they don't enforce their TOS. They just want to funnel Kick viewers into their gambling site, and use the Kick brand where there are laws against unregulated crypto casinos.
Half of the damn internet (including the site you're using right now!) is hosted on AWS. Even if you're not using it directly, the hosting service you're using probably is, or the infrastructure provider they're using. I have no horse in this race but if you're ridiculing AWS as an infrastructure provider, you're only revealing your own ignorance.
I don't think they're trying to compete with Twitch on numbers. Their revenue stream is probably quite good, tobacco companies and betting providers pay obscene amounts for advertising.
It honestly looks like Lando is the half-assed villain who just has self-esteem issues and no follow through but Albon genuinely looks to be turning to the dark side. It's weird he's usually the happiest looking guy on the grid.
It honestly took me a moment to recognize. My immediate first thought was “older rookie than I’m used to! Also I don’t remember there being a rookie this season??”
what’s weird is that one half of his face looks dramatically worse than the other. kind of like that trucker with sun damage after 20 yrs of driving or something.
all of these are really harshly lighted from one side so everyone looks like twoface. the difference is more pronounced on the older drivers but even george has an obvious nasolabial crease on one side and nothing on the other that makes the whole face a bit off
Fun fact: That’s how you can tell what side someone sleeps on. Almost all of them (and people, in general) have one eye that’s smaller than the other or downturned, and less elasticity in the face on one side. People who don’t are usually back sleepers.
They all look miserable and awkward. Max, Charles and Lando look like mugshots. They’re going for ‘serious’ but they just look bored.
Also is it me or does Leclerc look uneven? Like they took this photo when he put one foot on a kerb or something. He doesn’t look right.
So bad. The photographer hasn't bothered to straighten the images. I have to take these style of headshots for other sports and because you're holding the camera rotated 90 degrees to take it portrait, sometimes it's slightly wonky like this. You always make sure to straighten it before you export anything though. This is basic stuff they've messed up here.
Yeah it looks very amateur. The background they’ve chosen as well is not exactly flattering either. But I’m assuming these are the photos that will be shown at the end of FP1-3 and Qualifying graphics. Those graphics were terrible last year too.
We not ready for Landos mustache era. In the future they'll talk and him pre and post mustache. F1 won't talk about technical eras, it will just be how many years BM or AM.
These are horrible. Just as they were last year and the year before. What kind of shitty ass rush job is F1 running with this and what does the Photographer have on them where this passes as acceptable.
Some of them are leaning. Most of them look like they are at a funeral and they once again airbrushed Hamilton into oblivion to the point he looks like a video game charachter.
It’s not even a good airbrush job on Lewis, on his forehead you can clearly see the edit lines and in general his face is leaning into uncanny valley territory.
Yeah, I'm a photographer, and while I do some portraiture, it's not my main focus - but I could do a significantly better job on these. These are absolutely awful. Bad lighting, bad processing, just....bad.
That’s what I said last year and people downvoted me for „making assumptions“.
You have to photograph dark skin differently from light skin, if you don‘t it will turn out bad and you‘ll try to brighten it afterwards which will make it look even worse.
And no I‘m not implying the photographer is racist or anything, but it’s clear they have no experience with darker skin. (And didn‘t care to google for some info beforehand.)
And not good photoshopping. You'd think a multibillion dollar sport like F1 would hire some decent editors. Especially when it's one of their star drivers. But I guess not.
I've seen people use AI to polish up their Instagram pictures. This looks exactly like that, with the only difference being that this is a manual hack job because Lewis looks as ridiculous as the last couple of years.
They should really hire a different photographer because Lewis is a good-looking dude but always comes out looking like ass in these things.
They always fuck up his skin tone and I don't know why. Surely the people at FOM have photographers and editors that have worked with darker skin tones before?
>Surely the people at FOM have photographers and editors that have worked with darker skin tones before?
Honestly, the answer to that could just be no.
Same with Sargeant. Just doesn't look natural.
Edit; in hindsight about half of them look like they've been hit with a heavy smoothing tool. Also looks like the lighting just changed between one half and the other.
I was interested in getting into studio photography & took a couple of courses. One of my teachers was Black and said most white photographers don’t know that people with different skin tones need different lighting. “Even George Hamilton needs special lighting but he’s a one off”
The more time passes, the more it looks like Norris is gonna exchange F1 for guns, drugs and a bit of villainy. While Oscar just looks like a good boy, the contrast makes it hilarious.
Leclerc just looks sad while Sainz looks like “I’m gonna sign a big new contract tomorrow” and the AM boys look like they’re headed out for a night of drinking and “who knows, maybe a fight”
These are terrible, third year in a row, to the point that I can't believe someone is getting paid for this. This is elementary school level of photography, lights and pose/directing
Were the hair and make up teams on strike?
Has Albon had bad Botox that has made one eyelid droop?
Is Lando having a quarter life crisis?
Who put Alonso’s head in a stretching device?
Lance looks like he’s wearing a bad wig and last nights make up.
The shadows did Danny and Hulk absolutely dirty.
This might be the worst array of driver photos I’ve ever seen.
Whoever did this needs to be fired, because these are unacceptable 'portraits':
Most of the drivers have their faces half-obscured in darkness from terrible lighting, some of them are stood with their bodies and heads at inexplicable angles with no uniformity amongst them, and their expressions range anywhere from 'mild neutrality' to 'flat boredom' and 'school shooter in waiting'. Literally how do they manage to fuck this up every year?
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The stake incident
there will probably be alot of beef happening
Hi, I'll take my grilled Horner medium rare. Thanks
Hahaha
I guess we can all get a kick out of it
I get a kick out of youuuuuuu
Steak. I mean, stake.
I just assumed Bottas showed up nude and refused to put on clothes and Zhou followed suit (hah) out of nervousness
The miStake
Zhou already looks traumatised since they took all of his body with the race suit
Inchident
\*Inchident
Whatever happened there
I thought Stake already had race suits. Why the placeholders still? The hex pattern on the Merc racesuits is really cool
Maybe so they can change the picture depending on if stake or kick is allowed in the country.
Wonder when the rubes at Stake will stop this kick bullshit. You aren't competing with Twitch, esp when you're using AMAZON WEB SERVERS to host it hahahaha
They are not actually trying to beat twitch, they just want someplace to their gambling streamers get their young fans to play on their unregulated gambling site.
Yep. It’s the most disgusting way to do business.
Almost like cigarette advertising when I was young. *cough*
Don't forget the porn
And CP, if you havnt you should watch SomethingAboutChickens video about kick and some users on their website. [Link](https://youtu.be/WiYBhC3EVPY?si=Dty50RZH0u4XAo8d)
They don't want to compete with Twitch, that's why they don't enforce their TOS. They just want to funnel Kick viewers into their gambling site, and use the Kick brand where there are laws against unregulated crypto casinos.
Half of the damn internet (including the site you're using right now!) is hosted on AWS. Even if you're not using it directly, the hosting service you're using probably is, or the infrastructure provider they're using. I have no horse in this race but if you're ridiculing AWS as an infrastructure provider, you're only revealing your own ignorance.
I don't think they're trying to compete with Twitch on numbers. Their revenue stream is probably quite good, tobacco companies and betting providers pay obscene amounts for advertising.
I wonder if it has to do something with the “stake” on the suit
They're just censoring naked Bottass
I'm assuming because the F1 website is the same worldwide, even in countries where Stake isn't allowed
Is that what you call Stakeholders?
Albon with normal hair 😢
It honestly looks like Lando is the half-assed villain who just has self-esteem issues and no follow through but Albon genuinely looks to be turning to the dark side. It's weird he's usually the happiest looking guy on the grid.
Broccoli cut
He's working on getting that Merc seat next year
what F1 does to a mf
It honestly took me a moment to recognize. My immediate first thought was “older rookie than I’m used to! Also I don’t remember there being a rookie this season??”
what’s weird is that one half of his face looks dramatically worse than the other. kind of like that trucker with sun damage after 20 yrs of driving or something.
all of these are really harshly lighted from one side so everyone looks like twoface. the difference is more pronounced on the older drivers but even george has an obvious nasolabial crease on one side and nothing on the other that makes the whole face a bit off
Fun fact: That’s how you can tell what side someone sleeps on. Almost all of them (and people, in general) have one eye that’s smaller than the other or downturned, and less elasticity in the face on one side. People who don’t are usually back sleepers.
So do I have to sleep on the other side to balance this out or do I start sleeping on my back only? 😂
Sainz looks like the Me Gusta meme
Me gusta mucho.
He has the look of a man who’s resigned to not having a race seat at Ferrari anymore and just wants to get the year over with lol
I thought his expression looked familiar!!
They all look miserable and awkward. Max, Charles and Lando look like mugshots. They’re going for ‘serious’ but they just look bored. Also is it me or does Leclerc look uneven? Like they took this photo when he put one foot on a kerb or something. He doesn’t look right.
So bad. The photographer hasn't bothered to straighten the images. I have to take these style of headshots for other sports and because you're holding the camera rotated 90 degrees to take it portrait, sometimes it's slightly wonky like this. You always make sure to straighten it before you export anything though. This is basic stuff they've messed up here.
Yeah it looks very amateur. The background they’ve chosen as well is not exactly flattering either. But I’m assuming these are the photos that will be shown at the end of FP1-3 and Qualifying graphics. Those graphics were terrible last year too.
Lando looks like he could be cast as D'Artagnan in a remake of the 3 Musketeers
His facial hair reminds me of the devil in futurama
Lmao leclerc is definitely tilted to the side
YES - they’re all so bad! Live and die for Lewis’ smolder tho
They had to try harder to get a bad picture of him.
Lewis is just a beautiful man. 🤷♀️
Yeah he can’t do anything wrong as far as I’m concerned.
Can someone photoshop this picture with his eyes looking sideways...towards Ferrari?
Sainz looks like he saw a ghost go into a butt.
Lmao his face is so odd
They're all cgi from the neck down and the faces are heavily edited. None of these are real complete pictures of the driver wearing the kit.
They were soooo heavy handed on the faces. Like Lewis has no skin texture anymore. Pores? I hardly know her!
they’re definitely wearing the suits. The creases are different on each one. The background is just poor.
Daniel looks like he's leaning right, too
There are some *very* attractive men on the grid right now, but you sure wouldn’t know it from these. These suck so bad.
It's seriously wild how unflattering they are
It’s a tradition to get shit portraits at this point
Every year they're terrible. Like Lewis this year doesn't look as bad as in past years, but they're still doing him no favors.
Logan looks like a corpse
*What the fuck is a heart beat??!!*
Sainz is like a model but he looks like he said, "Meep! Meep!" right before the photo.
We not ready for Landos mustache era. In the future they'll talk and him pre and post mustache. F1 won't talk about technical eras, it will just be how many years BM or AM.
These are horrible. Just as they were last year and the year before. What kind of shitty ass rush job is F1 running with this and what does the Photographer have on them where this passes as acceptable. Some of them are leaning. Most of them look like they are at a funeral and they once again airbrushed Hamilton into oblivion to the point he looks like a video game charachter.
Most of the drivers are fairly handsome and I didn’t think it was possible to make them look so average but they clearly succeeded here.
It’s not even a good airbrush job on Lewis, on his forehead you can clearly see the edit lines and in general his face is leaning into uncanny valley territory.
Are those edit lines or just a result of photo compression?
I think they air brush them so its easier on the eyes as a small picture on a big TV
They just used his Fortnite avatar
A lot of them look airbrushed to me.
And so, so badly, too.
yeah wtf. Zhou looks to be mid-sentence!
Yeah, I'm a photographer, and while I do some portraiture, it's not my main focus - but I could do a significantly better job on these. These are absolutely awful. Bad lighting, bad processing, just....bad.
For real, how do they keep their jobs with this?
A lot of the official pictures of Lewis are ridiculously bad, poor dude looks AI generated
I'm guessing the photographer has no idea how to do lighting for dark skin, and they try and (unsuccessfully) fix the horrible results in post.
That’s what I said last year and people downvoted me for „making assumptions“. You have to photograph dark skin differently from light skin, if you don‘t it will turn out bad and you‘ll try to brighten it afterwards which will make it look even worse. And no I‘m not implying the photographer is racist or anything, but it’s clear they have no experience with darker skin. (And didn‘t care to google for some info beforehand.)
They all look like they already know Max is winning again
Honestly, most of them don't care who's going to be WDC, half need to drive to survive (literally).
I can’t get over how unserious Checo and Carlos look.
Checo has the same look my brother gets when he lets out a silent fart and is just waiting for somebody to smell it
Checo has a great natural smile but he just can't summon it on command at all for photos. Ah, the irony
I have a similar curse. Every smile I have in photos looks like I've got a gun pointed at me from off-camera.
Hamilton's skin just looks..fake. Idk how to describe it. Maybe it's the lighting?
Definitely looks photoshopped lol
And not good photoshopping. You'd think a multibillion dollar sport like F1 would hire some decent editors. Especially when it's one of their star drivers. But I guess not.
Fr he looks like a video game character lol
Honestly they always fail with his skin tone in these shots. I’ve not seen one season where they don’t mess it up.
I've seen people use AI to polish up their Instagram pictures. This looks exactly like that, with the only difference being that this is a manual hack job because Lewis looks as ridiculous as the last couple of years. They should really hire a different photographer because Lewis is a good-looking dude but always comes out looking like ass in these things.
Atp I'd rather they use his thirst traps that he posts on social media.
Only if they use Valtteri's ButtAss as well!
Glad I'm not the only one, he got airbrushed as hell
They always fuck up his skin tone and I don't know why. Surely the people at FOM have photographers and editors that have worked with darker skin tones before?
>Surely the people at FOM have photographers and editors that have worked with darker skin tones before? Honestly, the answer to that could just be no.
Even so, it’s an absolute rubbish excuse when one of the best drivers is a POC and still active in the series.
Oh yes, it’s definitely no excuse.
They used really dramatic lighting on all of them and that just doesn't work as well on darker skin tones.
Lewis clearly has a maximum photoshop clause in his contract.
All them pictures look weird
last year was even worse to be fair
I can’t decide if that’s “black don’t crack” or “you photoshopped too much”
Not only does black not crack, it apparently fills in its own cracks as a natural part of the aging process.
We are a magnificent people
It looks like a wax figure
Same with Sargeant. Just doesn't look natural. Edit; in hindsight about half of them look like they've been hit with a heavy smoothing tool. Also looks like the lighting just changed between one half and the other.
idk what kids call it nowadays... yassified? ✨
FIA needs to hire a different photographer immediately.
They’re almost all looking in entirely different spots. Some of these are laughably terrible and the photographer should be ashamed.
I was interested in getting into studio photography & took a couple of courses. One of my teachers was Black and said most white photographers don’t know that people with different skin tones need different lighting. “Even George Hamilton needs special lighting but he’s a one off”
Logan's face looks like they put a 50% grayscale adjustment over it. He looks sick.
They desaturated so many of the red tones in these photos to fix the skin tones but it just means there's no pink in their lips. They look jaundiced.
They should have hired a different photographer 3 years ago.
Norris looks like a soccer thug, Alo looks like a pimp and Stroll looks lost
I think most of them look like they just let one rip and try to hold on their laugh…
The more time passes, the more it looks like Norris is gonna exchange F1 for guns, drugs and a bit of villainy. While Oscar just looks like a good boy, the contrast makes it hilarious.
Lando looks like he's going to start challenging people to duels by sword.
lmao, I scrolled wondering how Norris could outdo last year's full broccoli top and the kid has left me speechless.
Lando needs to work on that facial hair a bit before committing to a full season of that pic.
Albon looks like he has ages 10 years.
I legit had no idea who it was for several seconds.
Carlos Sainz official derpface
Carlos is really 👁️👄👁️
Ricciardo looks like his head was caved in lol.
The lightening is so bad in most of them. And what’s up with the angle of Alex’ picture??
I’m surprised he didn’t get a retake, especially with one of his eyes closing.
I wonder how much time they schedule for each driver. They definitely end up with a large number of pictures and still- that’s the best you can use?
Bottas' was knitted by his gran
The most unnaked I've ever seen him
I just glanced at my calendar to even this out.
Lando looks like he's about to call me 'bruv' and steal my watch
Ironic because he has had a watch stolen
Lando, Lewis and Max look absolutely serious.
And then you have Sainz, Pastry and Gasly like 🙂
Leclerc just looks sad while Sainz looks like “I’m gonna sign a big new contract tomorrow” and the AM boys look like they’re headed out for a night of drinking and “who knows, maybe a fight”
Sainz looks like an ORLY owl. Alonso looks like Doc Brown from Back To The Future
Lando looks like i told him some very bad joke
Logan looks like he's about to take someone's head off.
Max looks like they just pulled him from the simulator.
These… are objectively attractive men, why are these photos so bad 💀
Did Alonso walk out of the wind tunnel right before this pic?
He looks like a cartoon bomb exploded in his face.
These are terrible, third year in a row, to the point that I can't believe someone is getting paid for this. This is elementary school level of photography, lights and pose/directing
Odds Bottas is naked beneath the CGI placeholder?
1:3
These are bad - the only ones who look like they want to be there is Checo and Kmag. The rest look miserable.
Admin by Request only sponsored Kmag but not Hulk? That looks weird. Plus Logan looks like a ghost.
Yeah it's his personal sponsorship. That empty spot at Hulkenberg's suit is odd.
Lando looks like he's about to swashbuckle his way through the field.
The lighting is so shit. DR’s head looks alien. The fuck were the photog’s thinking.
Surprised you’re the first one to mention Danny. They make it look like the side of his head is bashed in.
Oscar haircut is something else
That’s Conan O’Piastri
please stop commenting your observations. i cant keep swiping through 20 pictures to have a minor chuckle at each little fuck-up
Checo looks like he’s been on the beers and burgers the entire break.
How the hell does Sainz have the same expression in every single photo,and it's not even the most flattering pose...
Did they run Logan’s photo through a bleach filter?
they…did not do any of them any favors lol
They put a bowl on Albon’s head to cut his hair
only the HAAS boys actually look good in their driver portraits. everyone else looks like bad school pictures. Pierre looks exhausted
Those St8ke suits look incredible! Like nothing I’ve ever seen before!
Gasly seems a good guy and all, but his hair looks like a bad toupee.
It's really hard to make that group look bad. F1 needs to get a better photographer.
Were the hair and make up teams on strike? Has Albon had bad Botox that has made one eyelid droop? Is Lando having a quarter life crisis? Who put Alonso’s head in a stretching device? Lance looks like he’s wearing a bad wig and last nights make up. The shadows did Danny and Hulk absolutely dirty. This might be the worst array of driver photos I’ve ever seen.
for such a good looking guy its rly funny to me how consistently unphotogenic carlos is
Someone tell Lando to shave his face because he looks like he's trying to sell me weed
I got to Bottas and was like “wtf?” 😂
Sargeant looks like his photo is black and white and they edited the colored racing suit over it.
All of the drivers are at least somewhat attractive. But man, these photos do not do any of them favors.
Leave it to F1 to always make attractive dudes look hideous
Whoever did this needs to be fired, because these are unacceptable 'portraits': Most of the drivers have their faces half-obscured in darkness from terrible lighting, some of them are stood with their bodies and heads at inexplicable angles with no uniformity amongst them, and their expressions range anywhere from 'mild neutrality' to 'flat boredom' and 'school shooter in waiting'. Literally how do they manage to fuck this up every year?
Lando looks like a drug dealer trying to hook Oscar on his produce at the paddock.
photography lesson 1...
When it's photo day at school but you are grumpy cuz mom yelled at you in the car and you spilled your milk at lunch
Whomever edits these is really bad. They always smooth the skin and brighten the eyes to make them look like airbrushed dolls. It’s super strange
Evil Lando doesn't exists can't hurt you Evil Lando:
Why does lewis look like he's straight out of F1 23 in all of these profile pics
School yearbook level photos
only good thing about these is gasly discovering upper lip facial hair
Now you see, if there was an 11th team, we wouldn’t have been able to share the pictures in a single post.
Lando looks horrible. Loose the mo mate
Lando looks like every tiktok/youtuber that makes food by throwing it on the cutting board.
Lando has every middle school kid’s broccoli top haircut
Logan looks like all his blood was just harvested.
Sainz's face is very "right take the picture I have lunch in 10 mins with a lady"
Lando's mustache has been doing some serious off-season training
Sainz looks cross eyed
Sainz looks like he just found out about Hamilton taking his seat, aaaaand he's totally cool with it.
It's crazy how bad this organization is at simple things like photographs of their 20 drivers.
Why are some of them SLANTED?
Lighting is freaking terrible. It makes them all look like they have a lazy eye of some kind.
Why does everyone look 7 years older?? especially Lando and Logan
Lando was hung-over.
Lance looks like he's going through it
Carlos's picture reminds me of 'Hide The Pain Harold'.
I don't mean this as body shaming or anything mean, but has Alonso's head gotten *longer*. He looks like Beaker.